Melora
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 1 November 1993
- ON
- First-run syndication
- STARDATE
- 47229.1
- DIRECTED BY
- Winrich Kolbe
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 426
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Evan Carlos Somers and Steven Baum and Michael Piller & James Crocker; story by Evan Carlos Somers
A fiercely independent officer from a low-gravity world arrives on the station, and Bashir falls for her while searching for a way to free her from her wheelchair.
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Ensign Melora Pazlar is an Elaysian, from a world with very low gravity, and must use a wheelchair and support frame on the station. Proud and prickly, she resents being treated as a special case, but Bashir wins her over and the two fall in love. Bashir develops a treatment that could let her walk unaided in normal gravity, though it would mean she could never comfortably return home. Meanwhile Fallit Kot, a criminal with a score to settle, arrives looking for Quark. When Kot kills his associate Ashrock and flees in a runabout with Quark, Dax and Melora as hostages, it is Melora who turns off the gravity and uses her natural ability to move in weightlessness to overpower him. She decides not to continue the treatment, choosing to remain who she is, and she and Bashir share an evening at the Klingon restaurant.
- 01Melora was originally conceived as the station's science officer, a role eventually filled by Jadzia Dax.
- 02Writer Evan Carlos Somers, a wheelchair user, wanted a disabled character who is accepted as she is and does not have to change.
- 03Daphne Ashbrook is one of a small number of actors to appear in both Star Trek and Doctor Who, in the 1996 Doctor Who television film.